floppy driver bug: write-protect

[David A. Gatwood]

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> OK, I need to check the write-protect status in the floppy_write
> routine in swim3.c.
> 
> I have recently looked at the floppy driver source code in MkLinux,
> which looks like it is derived from macos sources.  It looks like
> there are a few tweaks which I need to do to the Linux/PPC driver.

MkLinux's driver is based on a Copland driver with a Mach Driver
interwoven and some shim code.  Needs massive cleanup, but basically works
as long as you don't have more than one floppy drive.  Also a little
trouble with writing large chunks of data (not sure why).

Thanks for the info on how the write protect is supposed to work.  I put
some checks for write protect on write, but making the mount fail is a
much more logical solution.


Later,
David

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